Building a WordPress Theme Around the Events Calendar Plugin

WordPress has quickly transformed from a mere content management platform to one that is now involved in managing almost every aspect of an administrator’s day. The world’s most popular content management solution can, via plugins, manage events, dates, to-do lists, notes, tweets, Facebook status updates, and more. And, of these new ways to manage content, there is perhaps no more popular plugin than The Events Calendar, widely known as the…

What to Look for in a Great WordPress Caching Plugin

WordPress has been around for the better part of a decade, and that means there are some truly massive websites and databases that get queried on a regular basis. Those queries can add up pretty quickly and, over time, they can actually slow down the website and increase how much bandwidth it uses in an average month. As any web hosting customer knows, bandwidth can be particularly expensive and it…

10 Essential Plugins for WordPress Novices

WordPress’s extensibility, courtesy of its large plugin library, is one of the primary causes for its rapid spread as the platform of choice for web development across the internet – so much so that a whopping 15% of the top 1 million websites use WordPress as their CMS, with a total of 74.3M sites currently being powered by the platform. In fact, an entire ecosystem has developed around WordPress plugins,…

Focusing on Usability with an Enhanced Pagination Design in WordPress Entries

WordPress has supported basic pagination in both entries and in lists of posted entries for quite some time, although this method is not the most intuitive way to navigate content. Because the developers behind this popular content management solution believe in making everything almost exceedingly basic, so that it accommodates novice users as well as those who are more advanced, the pagination technique used by WordPress simple allows users to…

WordPress Plugins That Make Your Life Easier

Whether you’re a designer, a developer (or both), chances are you don’t have a lot of spare time. With that in mind, here are some of my favorite WordPress plugins that can help you get things done and move on to the next project. You may also like… WordPress Plugins to Help Make Your Site Responsive → 10 WordPress Plugins to Help Optimize Performance → Mobile Toolbox for WordPress (Tutorials,…

WordPress Plugins to Help Make Your Site Responsive

With the galloping development of modern technologies the screen size margin of your readership can be anything in-between a 30″ desktop monitor and the iPhone’s 3.5″ screen. Responsive design techniques kills two birds with a single stone by helping improve user experience by displaying a screen sized optimized version of your website. You can help your WordPress website become more mobile-friendly, and here is a list of the most useful…

10 WordPress Plugins to Help Optimize Performance

One of the biggest reasons behind WordPress’ popularity is the vast number of plugins that can not only extend its functionality but there are also many plugins that will improve the performance of a site. These plugins have the capability to make a site faster, that is, they enable it to load quicker and more efficiently. They will ultimately help in improving the search engine rank of a page. If…

Mobile Toolbox for WordPress (Tutorials, Plugins and Themes)

Mobile browsing clearly does have its limitations, mainly from its smaller physical design, but it also limited by web sites not having a mobile version tailored for the smaller screen. Current mobile web browsing stats stands at 4.5% of total world-wide internet usage and, with the prediction for the next five years being that more users will connect to the internet over mobile devices than desktop computers, it is now…

Useful Plugins and Resources for Improving User Interactivity with WordPress

If there is a sense of community and vibrant life surrounding a blog it tends to be successful and ultimately popular – that is a fact. So, if you own a WordPress blog and you are looking for an effective way to create a real sense of user interactivity on your blog, in this post, I highlight some fantastic plug-ins and resources, that you may not know about, that can…

Essential Tips for Maintaining and Speeding Up WordPress

WordPress is one of the most popular and widely-used blogging platforms and CMSs (content management system). The reason is it’s easy to install and use, so you can focus on creating content rather than building and maintaining your website. Everything from small personal blogs to big digital magazines like Smashing use WordPress to run their sites. Chances are you’re using WordPress for your own site or are planning on using…

Do we do enough to support WordPress Plugin Developers?

A while back the WordPress community use to be a bunch of coders that were all supporting themselves. One guy would create a nice plugin to manage most popular posts, another to manage social networking… Things were great and people helped each other. WOOHOO! Although the golden years are now happening for the makers of WordPress (Automattic), the makers of the plugins and to a lesser extent themes are really…

Dummy Content Filler Resources for WordPress, Drupal and Joomla Developers

Having to repeatedly create content to flesh every new web project is not only time consuming, it is also very, very frustrating. You have to create new posts, pages, menu items, categories, tags, users… and … and on. The sad thing is you have to do this, your web design has to be thoroughly sanity checked, there is no other way to do it. Or is there? Thankfully, there are…

Top 10 Social Bookmarking Plugins for WordPress

It has been almost two years since we last published a post on WordPress Social Bookmarking Plugins. What a difference that short period has had on user expectations, design trends and overall acceptance and popularity of social bookmarking. Many of the plugins from the previous post are now pretty much redundant and no longer supported, so this post takes a fresh look at the best Social Bookmarking solutions for WordPress….

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